"Thirsk.--In the reign of Henry VII. an insurrection broke out here, in consequence of an obnoxious tax. This was a subsidy granted by the parliament to the king, to enable him to carry on the war in Brittany against the French. The Earl of Northumberland had signified at an assembly, that the king would not remit any part of the tax, though the northern people had besought it; when they, taking the earl to be the cause of the answer, fell upon, and slew him, together with several of his servants, at the instigation of one John à Chamber. They then placed themselves under a leader, Sir John Egremond, who, on being defeated by the Earl of Surrey, fled into Burgundy. John à Chamber and some others were taken, and executed at York."--_A Picturesque Tour in Yorkshire and Derbyshire_, by the late Edward Dayes, London, 1825, pp. 147-8.
Dayes gives no authorities[2]; but this may afford a clue to further discoveries.
[Footnote 2: [Dayes' account of the above insurrection will be found in Kennett's _History of England_, vol. i. p. 595.--ED.]]
_Punishment of Prince Edward of Carnarvon_ (Vol. iv., pp. 338. 409.).--MR. W. S. GIBSON will find further particulars of the offence and punishment of this prince in a paper by Mr. Blaauw on the recently discovered letters of Prince Edward, which is published in the second volume of the _Sussex Archæological Collections_. The offence appears to have been committed in May or June, 1305, and the minister was, as has been stated, Walter de Langton, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, the king's Treasurer, but in the letters called Bishop of Chester; a seeming discrepancy arising from the fact that the Bishops of Lichfield and Coventry were not unfrequently called Bishops of Chester at that period, which was two centuries before the present see of Chester was created.
It may be as well to add a note to your two communications from MR. JOSEPH BURTT and R. S. V. P., that the _Bishop of Chester_, named by the former, is one and the same person with the _Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry_, named by the latter, as suggested by MR. FOSS; the two bishoprics being identical, and almost as often called by one title as by the other.
_Joceline's Legacy_ (Vol. iv., pp. 367. 410.).--The _first_ edition I believe to have been "_The Mother's Legacie to her Vnborne Childe_, by Elizabeth Iocelin, London. Printed by Iohn Hauiland, for William Barret, 1624." pp. 114. + title, approbation and epistle dedicatorie (40).